Favorite pastime

[rubywinglet]

Hello everyone,What do you do in your free time?
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My favorite pastime is to play games and watch latest movies.
What's about you?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Depends on how you define free time. For instance, today I will spend a few hours working on a program. I get paid for that, but it's Saturday, and I'm really looking forward to working on it. So, is that leisure because I enjoy it, or work because I am paid to do it. On the other hand, I also go for walks in the woods, but only if I can take at least a week, and generally three weeks, or more. Those little jaunts tend to be exhausting, and I'm still regrowing the toenails I lost back in July (the last one finally fell off just yesterday). Would that count as a pastime?

I also like to play games and watch movies, though I wouldn't say they are the latest. Both take up only a relatively small percentage, though.

[The_Grudge]

I like to watch movies and TV series if there isn't much going on. I've also played guitar for about 20 years now so that's a lot of fun when I'm in the mood.

I also enjoy building things, home improvement, and sports.

[techgnome]

I go kayaking, playing with the kids, playing with the dogs, model railroading and watch football (Broncos fan), baseball (Angels fan), and (if they ever get their act together) hockey (Ducks fan). Not much of a basketball fan though... I also follow Skiing and curling when I can - sadly both are pretty hard to find on TV, even with cable & satellite. Oddly, it's mostly stuff that has nothing to do with computers or technology.

-tg

[FunkyDexter]

The big one for me is rock climbing although I seem to be going backwards at the moment. I've gone from creaming 6Cs to struggling on some 5+s. I must be getting old.
I also like computer and board games from time to time.
I love sleeping but I'm not very good at it.
I took up snow-boarding a couple of years ago.
Trecking from time to time but not the sort of thing Shaggy goes in for. Mine are more sort of extended walks.
I've played the guitar for 33 years. My finger work's not what it was (mostly due to the climbing) so I've been working on my blues slide and if I can just work out how to play "In my time of dying" all the way through without needing to resort to open tuning (which is cheating, damnit... even when Jimmy Page does it) I'll be a happy man. I've got one chord left to figure out but I'm not sure the finger contortions are possible while wearing a slide.

[kareninstructor]

I enjoy teaching self-defense and creating music

I have been playing guitar and keyboards for about the same length of time. In my early days use to play in several rock bands, one original while the other was for the most part cover tunes. Got tired playing gigs and retreated to home recording using (forget the brand) a four track recorder. Currently I am using a Boss BR800 which does a nice job but took some time to figure out.

Current line up of guitars, two Gibson Les Paul were one I purchased back in the 70's (purchased for $900, now appraised at $11,000 PM me for details if interested) and the other recently. Two Fender Strats, one a Jeff Beck model with David Gilmour electronics and the one a standard strat with N3 pickups front and middle, humbucker for the bridge. One ES-335 and one 2012 Fender Tele (a really bad story behind this guitar, working with Sweetwater on a resolution) which is replacing an old squier tele.

I have two music rooms, one sports two Marshall combo's (JVM 215c and a GC-30) and a Mesa Boogie, other one Marshall (they did this one right, gain goes to 20 rather than 10 LOL) and an Orange Tiny Terror.
Sold my band amp which is sad, I would turn it to 3, decent amount of gain and the neighbors tolerated me but it was hard to stop turning things up. Last time as chance would have it was two years ago on Holloween, opened the window in the music room, turned the amp to the window, closed the door and played from the other side so not to feedback. Five cop cars showed up for that. What type of amp? Marshall JCM-800 full stack.

iPad dedicated to working with guitar and my Juno keyboards. Had a Korg DW-8000 which I gave away to a friend's child because I with the Juno and iPad I never played the DW.

In regards to Jimmy Page, I at one time could play a live version but not a studio version of 'In my time of dying'. What I learned about Page (easy enough to figure out) is most LZ songs had a live version simply because he is a master of layering sounds which can not be reproduced on stage. I am happy playing HeartBreaker, Dazed and Confused and Rock and Roll if prompted too, otherwise I rather not play other's music but instead create my own.

Below are several images of one of my music rooms

[FunkyDexter]

It's not just that he had two different versions (often 3 or 4) but that he tended to play all of them in completely different tunings so working out what he's doing isn't just a matter of watching his fingers. I'm still stuck on that one chord (it's the one he plays immediately as he moves from the slow paced bluesy beginning to the rocky middle section) but I found an example of it on line. The only trouble is that it's in an open tuning so I've got to convert the notes to standard E. Won't be that hard, I've just got to get round to it.

I presonally hate alternative tunings but I think that's because I'm primarily a live guitarist and I don't want to carry 8 guitars with me to every gig. I learned to play slide on an Standard E (mostly because nobody had explained open tuning to me when I started) and I can't be bothered to change now. It probably makes my life more difficult but it also means I can do all sorts of thinsg others can't. Besides, it's amusing to watch the confused expressions on the other slide merchants faces while they try to work out what the hell's going on.

My set up's simple, a Washburn G5V through a Sessionette 90 with 2 bins and a spare marshall cab for when I'm gigging and need more frontage. All cheap as chips and all owned since the 80s. The Washburn's funny. It's turquoise with a fire crackly finish and a pointy headstock so to look at it's the most hair-metal of hair-metal guitars. I get some pretty odd looks getting it out at blues gigs. But whack some Optima Gold 9s on it and chuck it through the Sessions overdrive channel and it gives the best blues-rock sound I've ever heard.

[kareninstructor]

I am with you on alternate tunings, life is too short for messing about with tunings or swapping out one guitar for another.

Not positive but Jimmy shows a chord progression in "It Might Get Loud" on one of the music channel specials for "In my time of dying" or was it Kasmir? Which ever it was I believe it impressed the other two guitarist on the special.

[ahmedkhairy]

I actually watch some animated series it kinda passes time away